Putschek Leaves Raiffeisen’s Investment-Bank Unit After 18 Years

March 25 (Bloomberg) -- Wolfgang Putschek, one of the most
senior investment bankers at Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank
International AG, is leaving after 18 years.

Putschek, 48, is departing from Raiffeisen’s Centrobank
unit at the end of March to join Swimsol, a maker of
photovoltaic systems he founded with his brother, he told
Bloomberg News today.

Raiffeisen, eastern Europe’s second-largest lender, merged
its investment-bank unit, Raiffeisen Investment, of which
Putschek was a co-head since 2004, with Centrobank last May.
Putschek continued as head of regions, responsible for corporate
finance in eastern Europe and Austria, under the Vienna-based
lender’s roof.

A Raiffeisen Centrobank spokeswoman, Andrea Pelinka-Kinz,
confirmed Putschek is leaving. No replacement will be named as
his tasks will be divided among Gerhard Grund, Henning von
Stechow and Klaus Imhof, she said.